Dough-dividing machine



I. E. POINTON.

DOUGH DIVIDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. IO', 1920.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1- Patented Dec. 28,1920.

J. E. POINTON.

DOUGH DIVIDING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 10, 1920.

1 36 3 1 4i 0 1 Patented Dec. 28', 1921).

JOHN EDWARD POINTON, OF PETERZBOROUGH, ENGLAND.

DOUGH-DIVIDING- MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1920.

Application filed February 10, 1920. Serial No. 357,753.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN EDWARD Pom- TON, a subject of the King of GreatBritain and Ireland, residing at Brackley, Park Crescent, Peterborough,in the county of Northants, England, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements Relating to D0ughDividing Machines, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to dough dividing machines of the type whereinthe dough portions are forced from the main dividing box or itsequivalent into a series of subdividing boxes or cylinders.

With such machines disadvantages are experienced when the said seriescomprises several boxes disposed in parallel through diliiculties inobtaining regular feeding or complete charging of the main dividing boxfrom the hopper, and a uniform distribution of such charges throughoutthe series or plurality of cylinders. To obtain accuracy and uniformityin the weights of the divided dough portions regularity of feeding orcharging of the main dividing box and uniform distribution of the chargeamong the subdividing boxes or cylinders are essential.

The object of this invention is to provide simple and convenient meansfor overcoming the said difliculties and insuring accuracy anduniformity in the division of the dough into portions of the requiredweight.

The invention comprises the use of a compartm'ental main dividing boxand the combination therewith of a ram and dividing knife for eachcompartment, the plurality of rams and dividing knives being adapted foroperation. as a single unit or otherwise.

Referring to the two accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings Figure1 is a sectional side elevation, and Fig. 2 a sectional end elevationrepresenting the main dividing box and associated parts of a doughdividing machine as construct ed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 3 is a plan, Fig. 4 a section through a line 1. 2. (Fig. 3), andFig. 5 a side elevation of the said main dividing box.

The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same orsimilar parts.

In the application of the invention, as illustrated in the drawings, toa dough dividing machine having six subdivision boxes at arranged inalinement, the main dividing box 5 is of a sufficient width to extend infront of all the said boxes, but is formed into two compartments 6, b bya central wall or partitioning rib 15 extending throughout its length.Thus each compartment commands or extends in front of three sub-divisionboxes or cylinders a. The said sub-division boxes or cylinders a are, inthe example illustrated formed or arranged in a rotatable cylindricalhead or drum 0 in a known manner forming no part of this invention.

Each of the compartments bb of the main dividing box 6 has a ram as (Z(Fig. 1) adapted for reciprocation therein, and with each ram there isprovided a knife as c, e, for dividing the dough, which de scends intothe compartments 6, 6 from the hopper 7 above them, from the mass within75 the hoppers.

The reciprocation of the knives e, e and the rams as (Z is effected inany convenient and well known manner, as, for example, through rods as gand h (Fig. 1) to which reciprocatory movements are imparted through camoperated levers or otherwise.

The central wall or partitioning rib b aforesaid serves also, as isshown at Fig. 2, to support the inner or adjacent sides of the knives e,e employed in the respective compartments of the main dividing box 6,and to enable the same to be very effectually stayed or stiffenedagainst deflection.

The hopper f is also preferably provided with compartments correspondingwith those of the main division box 6.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is In dough dividing machines, the combinationwith a hopper, a compartmental open top division box beneath saidhopper, a reciprocating ram in each compartment of the said divisionbox, and a series of sub-di- 1 vision chambers communicating with eachcompartment, of reciprocating knives between the open top of saiddivision box and the hopper, and means for stiifeningthe said knivesbetween the box compartments, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN EDWARD ronviron.

